Taking this opportunity to thank you all at ElRepo for a great job. :-) -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Akemi Yagi" <amyagi at gmail.com> > To: "The CentOS developers mailing list." <centos-devel at centos.org> > Sent: Saturday, 14 November, 2015 16:57:53 > Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] Query regarding contributing RPMs to CentOS Repo > On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 4:37 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: > >> The key to working out a plan for Uday's kernel is going to be driven by >> how he intends to support it and do maintenance work in that space. > > Taking this opportunity, I'd like to share my recent experience that > might show what it's like to maintain non-distro kernels. > > For those who are not familiar, ELRepo (Alan Bartlett) maintains the > latest mainline kernel for RHEL/CentOS/Scientific Linux as 'kernel-ml' > [1]. When the first release candidate for kernel 4.2 (4.2-rc1) came > out, Alan immediately noticed it did not build under RHEL 6. Long > story short, a piece of kernel code in the netfilter section was not > compatible with gcc 4.4.x (used in EL6) [2]. Apparently, kernel > developers did not test-build against "older" versions of gcc. > > Despite the fact the patch was submitted at the early stage of the 4.2 > RC process, the fix did not make it into kernel 4.2. So, there was no > kernel-ml 4.2. Fortunately, the patch was added to kernel 4.3-rc1 and > ,therefore, kernel-ml 4.3 could be released. > > With regard to kernel 4.2, the patch had to be backported. It was one > of several hundreds of patches that were waiting to be added by > GregKH. It eventually happened with kernel 4.2.4. > > The whole thing involved email exchanges, testing proposed patches, > etc. So, here we are talking about commitment ... > > Akemi > > [1] http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml > [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/5/74 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel